• ArugulaZ@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Joke’s on you! Humans will be extinct by 2531. Maybe by 2031 if Trump becomes president again.

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    The assumptions are almost certainly going to turn out to be incorrect, but even if everyone ends up with the name Sato, people will just start adding other names to differentiate, like they’ve done in cultures throughout history.

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    1 year ago

    “If everyone becomes Sato, we may have to be addressed by our first names or by numbers,” he said, according to the Mainichi. “I don’t think that would be a good world to live in.”

    What’s wrong with names?

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      1 year ago

      Lol the professors should talk to all the Taro, Ichiro, Jiro and Saburos in Japan about this.

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    1 year ago

    Given their birth rate they’d be lucky to have even Sato’s around by the 26th century.

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    I fail to see how spouses having the same name has any impact on the distribution in the future, the factor that controls that is the names of the children. To fix this you’d need to do something along the lines of girls get the dad’s surname, boys the mother’s, or the other way around. Also Spanish customs are worth looking at.

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    1 year ago

    This assumes that they only ever have the names they have now. Call me crazy, but I suspect that immigration policies will probably shift a little at some point in the next 500 years.

    Hell, I wouldn’t even be willing to bet that any given country would still be around in it’s current form by then, including Japan.

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      1 year ago

      Generally speaking, I find it a little arrogant to think they can predict what society will be in 500 years.

  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Interesting. I married a Japanese woman, and when she registered me in Japan she changed my surname to hers, lol.

    We don’t live there, though.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure Japan has bigger problems that will come up much sooner just like the rest of us.